Word: brands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly it appeared that the Liberals were reluctant to follow leader George into a situation which might restore him to all his old prestige if the panacea "worked"; and might brand the Liberal Party as a parcel of radicals if the measure failed either in Parliament or later. As always the wily George threatened and yielded adroitly. He swore that he would resign from the party and go "out into the wilderness." He cajoled his old follower, Sir Alfred Mond, a bitter foe of land nationalization. At length he yielded, just soon enough to secure notable concessions as a reward...
FORTY YEARS OF IT-Brand Whitlock-Appleton ($2.50). Memoirs, politics and public life in the Middle West, which William Allen White describes in a brief preface as "an adventure in easy reading and high thinking...
...wealthy business men can fill their lockers full of liquor and boast in company about how much they have and the brand they have and not be molested, while the penitentiary is being filled with poor devils who have neither friends nor money, who have been found guilty of having a pint 'on the hip' or making a little liquor for home consumption-then, indeed, when all these things happen justice becomes a mockery and the law becomes a stench in the nostrils of all law-abiding people...
...religion that does not have a hell is a failure. Just as soon as one brand drops its hell, its adherents leave it for another that possess one. Our hell-that is, the hell of the medical profession- is cancer...
...world as His stage let us transform our stage into a world. This is the only chance of escape we have. We can get away from his Reality by changing it into Unreality first and with the latter as a foundation build up a new reality, a brand new shimmering universe in place of the old and ragged one. This transformation can be accomplished only through the stage breaking away from its present narrow limits and taking all of life as its domain. The actor is to become a crusader going into the arena resplendent in the shining armour...